Re: France ready to help clean Algeria blast sites

Salu-tutti,
it's about the time that France OFF-iciel admit and recognize it's
humancrimes in their dark colonial time but never trust france OFF-iciel
specially with Sarko-c at the head of the state.

Why France OFF-iciel didn't return algerian's archive ?


"Hakim Talbi" <talbidesign@xxxxxxx> wrote : ..
http://africa.reuters.com/top/news/usnBAN824118.html

France ready to help clean Algeria blast sites
Thu 28 Feb 2008, 6:42 GMT

ALGIERS (Reuters) - France is ready to carry out a new study of 1960s
French nuclear test sites in Algeria and if necessary help clean up
any pollution, France's ambassador in its former colony said in
remarks published on Wednesday.

The envoy, Bernard Bajolet, added in an interview with El Khabar
newspaper that a year ago France had handed Algeria maps showing the
extent of contamination and suggested steps that would need taking if
Algeria ever wanted to develop the areas.

Algerian commentators say French foot-dragging in acknowledging that
harm was caused by the tests and in compensating victims has slowed
efforts to improve ties between the two countries since a traumatic
war for independence.

Algerian and French army veterans who visited a test site last year
said local people became ill after the blasts, some of which were
carried out under an agreement with the first Algerian government
after independence in 1962.

France has denied any wrongdoing during its Saharan tests and says a
report by International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) specialists who
toured the sites in 1999 found that none of the sites was likely to
expose people to levels in excess of international safety norms.

"We are waiting for the response of the (Algerian) government to
suggestions we made on the basis of a report done by the IAEA,"
Bajolet was quoted as saying.

"And we are ready to carry out a new study and contribute if necessary
to the clean-up operations," adding that this was something "that
could have been done earlier".

Of 13 underground tests carried out in France's former North African
colony between 1960 and 1966, four involved incidents in which
radioactive gas leaked out, French officials have said.

French President Nicolas Sarkozy has pushed for a new start to ties
with Algeria. In October France moved to resolve another obstacle to
better relations when it handed over details of where its forces laid
millions of landmines half a century ago.

Algerian newspapers regularly report deaths and injuries of people who
inadvertently step on independence-era landmines.

Bajolet said Algeria had never asked officially for maps locating the
mines and that France had decided unilaterally to hand them over.

"The decision came very late. I don't personally understand why they
were not handed over after independence," he said. "President Sarkozy
has also taken a positive decision to care for those injured and
crippled by the mines."



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